Description
Set aboard the U.S. frigate Neversink, this semi-autobiographical novel follows a young sailor’s hard-won education in discipline, duty, and the daily realities of life at sea. Through vivid scenes of shipboard routine and conflict, the story exposes the power structures that govern ordinary seamen—highlighting harsh treatment, moral compromise, and the human cost of “order.” As the narrator navigates a world where authority can become tyranny, the book becomes both a gripping maritime tale and a pointed indictment of corporal punishment, especially flogging. Written in Herman Melville’s distinctive, observant style—part adventure, part social critique—this classic captures the “world in a man-of-war” with urgency and moral force.
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Published Jan 1, 1892
396 pages
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First Published
1850
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for White-Jacket by Herman Melville.